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Horn with silver ornamental mountings and leather strap.

Powder horn mounted with leather and strap.

Little ceramic horse, with a hole in back, flower decoration. Colours: white, brown, yellow, green, blue.

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: waves, scrolls and anthropomorphic.

Carved wooden human figure, female, standing on a stool, decorated with zigzag, wavy and spiral carvings filled with lime.

Three-handled pitcher, black-figured, in glazed red clay. Shows gods escorting a marriage procession. Bearded man driving a quadriga. On left, female figure, behind, Dionysus with wreath of vine leaves, on right, Persephone. On the other side of the…

Figure of an ibis in bronze, from Late Period unstratified deposits at excavations at Saqqara (Sakkara). Excavation Inventory No.958, Provenance No. (H5-286).

This is one of a pair of carved wooden figures from the NW coast of North America, probably made in the mid-19th century. They may have been carved for a collector or trader, but they apparently are accurate depictions of native people of the time…

Carving in wood of figure group: chief seated with fly whisk, beaded crown with birds on top, below are 3 female servants standing, and at base two wives, seated. Described in Reid (1912) as a 'fetish'.

Seated human figure in brass above a hook-shaped iron handle. Symbol of a Yoruba chief.